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Online Status: Last On: Jul 14, 2010 - 5:59 AM
Profile Views: 501
Member Since: September 15, 2009
Location: Wayne, OH
ShoutLife Address: shoutlife.com/kerrynietz
Website: www.kerrynietz.com
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Primary Publishers: Marcher Lord Press
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A Star Curiously Singing (2009)
Earth, hundreds of years in the future, when much of the world is living under sharia law. It is a dualistic society, where the average human plies the streets in squalor while the rich and powerful ride the strings--the cables--far above them. These latter masters are so shrouded in technology that they need specialized debuggers--implanted and controlled techno-slaves--to manage their machines for them.

Sandfly is a debugger. Via the stream he can hear the songs of millions of machines, down to the microscopic level. And fix them. That's his job, his duty. It guarantees a place for him in Paradise. He has little choice in the matter, however. Aside from providing access to the stream's vast storehouse of knowledge, his implant ensures Sandfly's strict compliance.

For Sandfly, no job is different than any other, until he is assigned the mystery of a bot's destruction.

The catch? The bot has been to space. Deep space.

Space makes Sandfly extremely nervous.

But that is the least of his problems...

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FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software (2003)
This memoir of Fox Software details the company's growth from a college professor's side project to a 300-employee organization before its acquisition by Microsoft for $160 million in the early 1990s. Recounted are the triumphs and struggles that the development team went through as they learned how to build personal computer database software that eventually became best-of-breed and trounced the competition. Former employee Kerry Nietz describes his interview at Fox, his job offer, his first days as a rookie programmer, and the tumultuous events of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the lawsuit filed by Ashton-Tate and the merger/acquisition by Microsoft. Recounted are the varied personalities on the team, including the sometimes off-the-wall management team, and how the outside world appeared to a group of developers who spent their lives staring at computer screens, trying to ship another batch of code.

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About Kerry Nietz
Kerry Nietz is a refugee of the software industry. He spent more than a decade of his life flipping bits?first as one of the principal developers of the database product FoxPro for the now mythical Fox Software, and then as one of Bill Gates's minions at Microsoft. He is a husband, a father, a technophile and a movie buff. He has one non-fiction book, a memoir entitled FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software. His first novel, A Star Curiously Singing, will be published in October of 2009.

You can learn more about Kerry at his website: www.kerrynietz.com
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Jeanette on 7/13/10 - 10:33 PM
Thanks for adding me. You are on my list of authors to read!